San Jacinto Unified School District is promoting programming at all of its sites this week. The district is encouraging a one-hour activity for every student, with the centerpiece event scheduled Wednesday, Dec. 9, at Mountain View High School.

“Many teachers don’t have the experience in computer science, but we all know that it’s important for students for global learning,” said Heidi Baynes, a member of the district’s EdTech team. “The activities we are encouraging this week gives both teachers and students a chance to see what computer science is all about.”

All Mountain View students will be engaged in some type of computer science activity Wednesday and Gaspar Modelo-Howard, a specialist in cyber security, will address the school via Skype. Fifth-grade students from De Anza Elementary will visit the high school to participate in a coding game.

There will be more than 190,000 computer science activities in more than 180 countries, according to the Hour of Code website.

In the Menifee Union School District, Sherri Simpson, a fourth-grade teacher at Freedom Crest Elementary, has made coding a part of her classroom experience each week. As a member of CS First Computer Science Club with Google, the class has been provided with free curriculum.

“This type of activity helps to prepare the students of the MUSD for the jobs of the future,” district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus said. “Coding has been integrated in many ways.”

Elsewhere, Centennial High School is Corona is going to be have students programming, guest speakers and hands-on clinics this week.

And in Hemet, the Western Center Academy has made coding part of its curriculum and three teachers at Alessandro High School are using Hour of Code in their advisory class.

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